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Valerie Eliot, English businesswoman (died 2012)

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Valerie Eliot

British editor; widow of T. S. Eliot

Esmé Valerie Eliot was the second wife and later widow of the Nobel Prize-winning poet T. S. Eliot. She was a major shareholder in the publishing firm of Faber and Faber Limited and the editor and annotator of a number of books dealing with her late husband's writings.
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August 17

Day of the year

August 17 is the 229th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 136 days remain until the end of the year.
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